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July Entry - Nexus of Earth

Let's get this challenge started up!

My idea is to create a nexus point that is below the surface of the ground.... I am toying with the idea of having a temple set in a quarry. I have a preliminary sketch done, but I have not scanned it yet... I still have not settled on the style of map I am going to do this in. Trying to decide between pen and ink looking amp and something like the highly textured "Something Swampish" map I did a few years back. As soon as I get something scanned in I will post it here.

Also, I will be making an effort to actively comment on everyone's work in progress thread. So don't be surprised if you get some C&C in your thread when you post it up. I welcome others to comment here as well. The 2 best ways to get better are doing it more and getting constructive critiques from others who know what they are doing.

here we go with the first of the WiP's... I hope I am still garnering some interest from you fine folks

anyhoo.... still need to determine how much other stuff to add (insets, profiles, etc... )
still need to determine the overall style of the map... I have some thoughts on this, but those thoughts depend on if I can carry those ideas off...

god, I love "photomerge" in Photoshop... original is pencil on 11 x 17 in - ish

I think that once you get some more colors in it might look better. Right now it's just an orangey dirt with a minty grass with trees of sponging and some 3dish shadows in the canopy. It's got legs but just needs some work and lovin so stay with it and let's see what the next one looks like.

If the radiance of a thousand suns was to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One...I am become Death, the Shatterer of worlds.
-J. Robert Oppenheimer (father of the atom bomb) alluding to The Bhagavad Gita (Chapter 11, Verse 32)